The Sacred College of Cardinals is the body of all Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. The body plays two roles for the church:
participating in papal elections when the Holy See is vacant, and
advising the Pope about Church matters when he summons them to a consistory.
Historically, they were also the clergy of the city of Rome serving the Pope as the Bishop of Rome and were assigned duties in parishes of the city.
The College has no ruling power except during the sede vacante period, where its powers are still extr ...
Vellore district is one of the 30 districts in the Tamilnadu state of India. Vellore town is the headquarters of this district.
Vellore district - History.
Vellore District was formerly part of North Arcot District, which was established by the British in the 19th century. On 30 September 1989 the district was split into Tiruvannamalai-Sambuvarayar (present-day Tiruvannamalai) and North Arcot Ambedkar districts. North Arcot Ambedkar District was renamed Vellore District in 1996.
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The Republic of Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola and the smaller islands of La Gonâve, La Tortue (Tortuga), Les Cayemites, and Ile a Vache in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba; Haiti shares Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. The total land area of Haiti is 10,714 square miles (27,750 square km) and its capital is Port-au-Prince on the main island of Hispaniola.
A former French colony, it was the first country in the Americas after the United States to declare its independence. In ...
The SAT (pronounced "S-A-T") Reasoning Test, formerly called the Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test, is a type of standardized test frequently used by colleges and universities in the United States to aid in the selection of incoming students. In the U.S., the SAT is administered by the private College Board, and is developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). A relatively small number of universities in other countries such as the United Kingdom have recently beg ...
QI, standing for Quite Interesting, is a comedy panel game television show shown on BBC Two and BBC Four and hosted by Stephen Fry. It is distinguished by the awarding of points not necessarily for the correct answer, but rather for an interesting one. Many of the questions and answers are extremely obscure. Points can also be deducted, but, quite interestingly, not for wrong answers, but only for obvious but wrong answers; this often results in a negative points score at the end of the ...
The Vegetarian Society is a British society founded 30 September 1847 and is believed to be the oldest society promoting vegetarianism in the world. The first meeting was held at Northwood Villa, a vegetarian hospital at Ramsgate in Kent. Its first full meeting was held in Manchester the following year and 1848 also saw the publication of the first issue of 'The Vegetarian', the magazine of the society. There is more information about the formation of the Society at http://www.vegsoc.org/info/developm.html#form
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USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the first nuclear-powered submarine and a unique prototype, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be so named. The concept of the nuclear submarine was based on the work of physicist Philip Abelson. On December 12, 1951, the Navy Department announced that the world's first nuclear-powered submarine (SSN 571) would carry the name Nautilus. Authorized by the Congress in July 1951, her keel was laid at the Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut by the Honorable Harry S. Truman, Preside ...
Darmok is an episode of the television science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was first broadcast in the United States on 30 September 1991
The plot involves Captain Picard's attempts to communicate with an alien captain, with whom he has been stranded on a hostile planet. The story exemplifies the problem of communicating with someone who uses a metaphorical language.
It features Captain Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, and Dathon of the alien Tamarian race, played by Pau ...
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While in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). Released from prison, the book was published in ...
UNMIL is the acronym for the United Nations Mission in Liberia, a peace-keeping force for Liberia, which was established by Resolution 1509 of the United Nations Security Council in 2003. This followed the resignation of President Charles Taylor and the peaceful transfer of power. UNMIL was proposed to consist of up to 15,000 United Nations military personnel and 1,115 police officers, along with a civilian component.
UNMIL - History.
Civil war in Liberia claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people ...
Swami Akhandananda was the direct disciple of Shri Ramakrishna and third president of the Ramakrishna Mission. He was born on 30 September 1864 in Kolkota as Gangadhar Ghatak. He had childlike simplicity and freely mixed with people. He entered Mahasamadhi on February 7, 1937.
Akhandananda - Service.
Swami Akhandananda was the first monk of the Ramakrishna order, who gave shape to the cherished desire of Swami Vivekananda to begin rural development work -even before the Mission was establishe ...
USS Virginia (SSN-774) is a United States Navy attack submarine, the lead ship of her class and the tenth ship of that Navy to be named for the commonwealth.
The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 30 September 1998 and her keel was laid down on 2 September 1999. She was launched on 16 August 2003 sponsored by Lynda Johnson Robb, the wife of former Virginia governor and senator Charles Robb, and daughter of President of the United State ...
Torture, the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain upon an individual to extract information, a confession or as a punishment, is prohibited by international law and illegal in most countries. However, it is still used unofficially by modern governments. This article describes uses of torture in recent times, that is to say, the use of torture since the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which prohibited it.
Uses of torture in recent times - Torture in modern society. Including:
Croydon Airport was in south London on the borders of the London Boroughs of Croydon and Sutton. It was the main airport for London before it was replaced by Northolt Aerodrome, London Heathrow Airport and London Gatwick Airport.
It originated as two adjacent World War I airfields - Beddington Aerodrome, one of a number of small airfields around London, which had been created for protection against the Zeppelin raids in about May 1915, and Waddon Aerodrome of 1918, a test-flig ...
In mechanical engineering, a clockwork is either a lightweight mechanical linkage, especially one involving multiple axles, or a complete mechanical device whose functioning relies on internal clockwork (in the preceding sense), especially where muscular effort is the sole source of operating power.
Often power for the device is stored within it via a winding device that applies mechanical stress to an energy-storage mechanism such as a spring, thus involving some form of escapement; in other cases, hand power may be utilized a ...
Viluppuram (also Villupuram) is one of thirty districts which make up Tamil Nadu State situated on the southern tip of India. Viluppuram District came into existence on 30 September 1993 when it was created out of South Arcot District.
The district headquarters are located at Viluppuram. The district occupies an area of 7217 km² and has a population of 2,943,917 (as of 2001).
Viluppuram - Early history.
Between the 1st and 4th century AD the Chola were the rulers of the area, Karika ...
ABN AMRO (Euronext: AAB, NYSE: ABN) is the largest bank in the Netherlands and has operations all over the world, its history going back to 1824.
It is the result of the merger in 1991 of Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN) and the Amsterdamsche-Rotterdamsche Bank (AMRO). Note that written references to the bank should always write ABN AMRO entirely in capital letters - as it is an acronym and not a proper name.
ABN AMRO Holding N.V. is the name of the holding company, which is listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange, among other excha ...
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BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It is broadcast on 92 - 95 MHz FM (95.80 MHz in central Scotland, and 103-104.5 MHz in parts of Wales) and 198 kHz longwave 720 kHz Medium wave; and via DAB, satellite (FM is broadcast on Sky channel 854 and LW is broadcast on Sky channel 893), selected Cable television providers, Freeview channel 704 and the Internet. It superseded its ...
The 40 Hour Famine is an annual event held by World Vision Australia. The event aims for young Australians to feel empathy for the lack of food which children in third world countries struggle with, and to raise money to help children in these countries.
Participants must first raise money through sponsorship from other people. Participants must then abstain from food, or another first world luxury, for 40 hours. The event officially runs from 8pm on Friday 12 August to noon on Sunday 14 August, because 12 August is International Youth Day. Participants may choose another time to do the Famine, but must ensure all m ...
The original Cinerama system is a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen, subtending 146º of arc. The screen is made of adjacent vertical strips, each of which faces the audience, in order to prevent light scattered from one side of the curve from impinging on the other side. The spectacular display is accompanied by a high-quality, six-track, stereophonic sound system.
The original system involved shooting with three synchro ...
